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Changing Goal Weight

ReadyWillingEager
ReadyWillingEager Posts: 56 Member
edited December 2024 in Motivation and Support
Give me your opinions/advice people. I want your 2 cents.

I am 5'6 22 year old female. My start weight was 167 lbs. I am currently at 133 lbs. and am considering changing my goal weight of 130 to 125. Do you think this is dumb? I just can't tell/compare to what is reasonable since I don't talk about weight loss with anyone. I do think I want to start working on fitness rather than numbers, but I also feel like there's a bit more weight to be lost as well. P.S. I have an hourglass frame.

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  • Fursian
    Fursian Posts: 578 Member
    ReadyWillingEager wrote: »
    Give me your opinions/advice people. I want your 2 cents.

    I am 5'6 22 year old female. My start weight was 167 lbs. I am currently at 133 lbs. and am considering changing my goal weight of 130 to 125. Do you think this is dumb? I just can't tell/compare to what is reasonable since I don't talk about weight loss with anyone. I do think I want to start working on fitness rather than numbers, but I also feel like there's a bit more weight to be lost as well. P.S. I have an hourglass frame.

    Start there. You're post indicates (to me) that you want more from your current physical self, so the bolded part sounds like a fine plan.
  • ReadyWillingEager
    ReadyWillingEager Posts: 56 Member
    Fursian wrote: »
    ReadyWillingEager wrote: »
    Give me your opinions/advice people. I want your 2 cents.

    I am 5'6 22 year old female. My start weight was 167 lbs. I am currently at 133 lbs. and am considering changing my goal weight of 130 to 125. Do you think this is dumb? I just can't tell/compare to what is reasonable since I don't talk about weight loss with anyone. I do think I want to start working on fitness rather than numbers, but I also feel like there's a bit more weight to be lost as well. P.S. I have an hourglass frame.

    Start there. You're post indicates (to me) that you want more from your current physical self, so the bolded part sounds like a fine plan.

    Thanks for the reply. I've also realized that though I hear that "fitness rather than weight" thrown around a lot....I don't really know what that means. Does that mean I need to lift weights? Is something like yoga a bad idea? I really don't know where to start. Weight loss is so straightforward and fitness sounds like this ambiguous scary thing!
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Your weight is good where it is right now if you wanted to stop. Just switch to working on body composition instead of weight loss - start resistance or weight training. At your height, a lean, fit 135 will look better than a weak, out-of-shape 125 any day, at least IMO. Do what feels right to you, though. :)
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